Finish well 🌅🏅🎯
The name of the couple is Victor and Eleanor.
There names stick in my mind-live across from the local Italian tailor.
When we first moved to the street 38 yrs ago, 🤔, I recall Victor driving a red Ford Ltd, Halliburton company vehicle.
I would see him walking along lodge road in work khakis. He parked his car in the garage and went to the mailbox on the other side of the road.
Summer days, vibrant mid-life, solid frame,tanned, 😓 sweat on the brow-Victor.
Eleanor and he would eat dinner 🥘 on the side porch on sweet summertime evenings at the humble home🏡.
Summer family reunions or family birthdays celebrations happened through summer and fall🍁.
Fast 💨 forward decades- saw the ambulance 🚑 in front of the house the other day; they were taking Eleanor to hospital 🏥
Saw Victor this morning. He was walking to the mailbox. Older now, more cautious. I called his name and asked how she was doing. He said she was getting along.
"They are finishing well as a couple," I thought,
and I want to do the same.♥️🌅
It happens to us all if we live long enough and the years can take a toll but there is a means to live each day well.
“So we have no reason to despair.
Despite the fact that our outer humanity is falling apart and decaying, our inner humanity
is breathing in new life every day.”
2 Corinthians 4:16
"Come, my heart, rejoice in the immunity which thy Redeemer has secured thee,
and bless his name all the day,
and every day."
(Morning CHS 3/26)
"But this beautiful treasure is contained in us— cracked pots made of earth and clay—so that the transcendent character of this power will be clearly seen as coming from God and not from us.
We are cracked and chipped from our afflictions on all sides, but we are not crushed by them.
We are bewildered at times, but we do not give in to despair. We are persecuted, but we have not been abandoned. We have been knocked down,
but we are not destroyed."
2 Corinthians 4:7-9
